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The LOTRO Beacon: Issue #22

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Lembas bread with some Shire taters on it and some of Sam's Shire Spice mix on it.

XanThorrthe Well-Met"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup"

~~Beeornfree113 Beorning of Evernight~~Xanthorr-1110 High Elf Hunter of Evernight
~~Beeornfree98 Beorning of Gladden~~Xanaxier105 Guardian of Gladden~~Xanthorr-1103 Hunter of Gladden
~~Beeornfree108 Beorning of Landroval
~~Beeornfree38 Beorning of Arkenstone~~Xanthorr35 High Elf Hunter of Arkenstone
~~Beeornfree29 Beorning of Brandywine~~Xanthorr30 High Elf Hunter of Brandywine
~~Beeornfree29 Beorning of Crickhallow~~Xanthorr37 High Elf Hunter of Crickhallow

The fellowship of course! A nice crusty old wizard with a lot of flavourful friends!

;) “There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only person wasting time is the one who runs around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong.” ~ Hindu Proverb

Weekly Question

First, you take some standard waybread (lembas, if you're feeling particularly artisan), then you add crushed tomatoes made into a paste/sauce, add your favorite cheese, then top it off with nice, crispy bacon. Bake it in an oven until all the cheese is nice and melted. No one in Middle-earth remembers the official name of the dish, but everyone just calls it " 'Zah".

"...At least it tells us they understand our language; they're just not willing to speak to us in it. -Who knew they were French?"

What is the equivalent of pizza in Middle-earth?

How about Calembel tomato pie topped with cheese? A favorite comestible throughout the Belfalas region!
Of course, in Pelargir and western Harondor you can get a dish consisting of flatbread topped with olives and anchovies; but most connoisseurs consider the Calembel version to be the "historically accurate" and "superior" dish.

A pizza is like an elf woman,
the base is very thin,
you got your nice juicy tomatosauce,
that fine meat,
the smell of seasoning on every pizza is unique and aromatic,
those toppings that can be sweet or spicy,
and it's all baked in a kind of oven.

Pizza of Middle Earth hmmmm....take some well aged travelling rations and then crush a mumak and spread liberally onto the rations. Top with cheese and finely sliced cave claw and mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm delicious! ;-)

'I'm a hunter, I have all the defensive capability of a wet dishrag' - Lothhil

"No sadder words of tongue or pen are the words: 'Might have been'." -- John Greenleaf Whittier
"Do or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda
On planet Earth, there is a try.
Indeed, in a world and life full of change, the only constant is human nature (A is A, after all :P).
We old vets need to keep in mind those who come after us.